A [Thousand] Road Apples
Mood:  d'oh
Now Playing: "Get Together" by The Youngbloods
Yesterday, a large group of abortion survivors ---calling themselves peace activists, anarchists, communists, Dean supporters, video camera operators, whatever--- blocked off the Congress Avenue Bridge here in Austin to protest the Second Inauguration of George W. Bush, President of the United States. NBC affiliate KXAN obligingly provided a helicopter's eye view of the whole mess and our ABC station KVUE followed up today with some footage from one of their tower cameras. It literally looked like a truckload of lab rats had spilled out onto Congress Avenue.

The first thing to notice about these proud heirs of Martin Estevez and Tom Hayden is that many of them like to wear bandanas over their faces. Why is this? Do they fancy themselves Zapatistas? Did they have some plan to vandalize something? Why not have some principles, kids? If you're so upset about the exercise of democracy in this country, why not stand up and put your names and faces to your own dissent? I'd hate to think it's because you're a lot of lousy cowards who don't have the stones to do it. Maybe you're just imitating Clinton ---trying to maintain your "political viability." Is that it?

One of these lab rats, a little female named Victoria Cloud (who, unfortunately, did not wear a bandana in her interview), said that this is a "repressive state" and expressed her willingness to do "anything" to make sure her voice was heard. She is also charged with felony assault on a police officer. Ah, yes. How romantic. It's the manufacture of anecdote, see. Little Victoria's earning her street creds ---just like the kid with the Long John Silver's hat on.

Or was that Napoleon's? You know, it may very well have been lined with tinfoil.

All I know is that if I had been on Congress yesterday and those turds had been in my way, I would have gone off on them like a teamster and beat some patriotism into their sorry hippy asses.

Four more years, beeyotches.